Landa, whose app lets users invest in rental properties for as little as $5 via fractional ownership, emerges from stealth with an $8M seed and $25M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor, and maintain open-source dependencies at scale, emerges from stealth with $25M in seed financing  —  An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source.  In a 2018 survey by Tidelift …

Natalie Wong / Bloomberg:
A look at business email compromise scams in the US involving real estate, and the Secret Service team that helped recover $244M in stolen BEC funds since 2019  —  For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Barcelona-based Ukio, which runs a short-term apartment rental service, raised a €27M Series A led by Felix Capital, with €17M in equity and €10M in debt  —  Ukio, a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding.

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Robinhood launches a waitlist for Robinhood Retirement, which it calls the “first and only” IRA with a 1% match on every eligible dollar contributed  —  Fintech says its will offer a 1% match on every eligible dollar contributed to its IRAs  —  Retail trading app Robinhood is entering the retirement game.

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Plaid lays off approximately 260 employees, or 20% of its workforce, citing macroeconomic conditions; the company was valued at ~$13.4B in April 2021  —  CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’  —  Fintech decacorn Plaid is laying off 260 employees …

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Plaid lays off approximately 260 employees, or 20% of its workforce, citing macroeconomic conditions; the company was valued at ~$13.4B in April 2021  —  CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’  —  Fintech decacorn Plaid is laying off 260 employees …